"...of is dead NEW Oct. 19 Mrs. RitaDeAcosta former society leader prominent in the news a few years died today at the Hotel Gotham of In 1895 she was married to W. E. D. Five years later they were Her second ... to conduct thn cross-examination of Indict Man In Death Of Kraft FALL CASE TESTIMONY CONCLUDED Final Arguments of Council Alone i Oct. 19 1 Final arguments by counsel remain before the Jury trying Albert Fall ... when u sympathy strike of 77,-000 longshoremen was th Five wholesale grocery are affected by the strike of the | R Brooks today addressed the an drivers who are demanding a convention of the Telephone ... critically hurt in auto collision Oct. 19 woman was two others critically Injured and a man and baby slightly hurt in the collision of two automobiles ten miles south..."

"...a country dunce Smith suffered a broken leg nnd in Injured wrist nnd was ly bumped on the head GIVEN New York Oct 28 frt The entire estate of Mrs Rita IT DeAcosta dlg who died October 19 Is left ... Twelve THE BILLINGS GAZETTE Tuesday Oct 29 1929 TARIFF DOOMED SENATE SEEKS HOOVER STAND Leaders of Factions Pass Blame to Each Other Washington Oct ol ultimate death was read over the tariff ... In the senate Monday by one of Its sponsors ator Reed Republican Pennsylvania and the post that quickly ensued found leaders of all factions passing the blame all around The assertion a of a statement by Senator ... .000 Mexico City Oct iF head of Pane ho Villa noted rebel general slain In 1923 again has material for sensational stories In newspapers It was learned after Villa's ..."

"...RELIGION GET ESTATE OF MRS LYDIG NEW YORK Oct 29 entire estale of Mrs Rita H DeAcostaLydig who died October rise to fame o e American screen was y five epic pictures including he Way Flesh and The Tho ... Oct 29 Albrecht 62 land calculator In the 1 office of the City land and tax department died Monday after having been stricken with a heart attack In his office Ho came to work as usual at 8 a m He ... 's Infirmary where he died shortly afterwards HEAVY HAH STRIKES EAGLE PASS Oct 29 area about 10 miles five miles from here was struck by a heavy hall storm yesterday damage was County Records PORT ARTHUR AUTOS D ... Court Co Inc vn i Mrs Hondo VK States f v BEATRICE r V m L V i CENTRAL PRESS INC CLEVELAND F..."

About Rita de Acosta

Rita Lydig (born Rita Hernandez de Alba de Acosta, October 1875– October 27, 1929) was an American socialite regarded as "the most picturesque woman in America." She was photographed by Adolf de Meyer, Edward Steichen, and Gertrude Käsebier, sculpted in alabaster by Malvina Hoffman, and was painted by Giovanni Boldini and John Singer Sargent, among others.

She also wrote one novel, Tragic Mansions (Boni & Liveright, 1927), under the name Mrs Philip Lydig, a society melodrama described as "emotionally moving and appealing" by The New York Times. She also supported the suffragette cause.

Famous for her extravagant lifestyle, '...Rita was equally welcomed in Paris, where she spent parts of each year. She would arrive at the Ritz with a hairdresser, masseuse, chauffeur, secretary, maid,... and forty Louis Vuitton trunks... Her personal wardrobe became the basis for the start of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In Paris, she joined ranks with musicians, artists, intellectuals, and philosophers, names like Rodin, Eleonora Duse, Yvette Guilbert etc... Impressed by Rita's innate creative spirit, Isabella Stewart Gardner, the great collector and creator of the Gardner museum in Boston, once asked their mutual friend, John Singer Sargent, why Rita had never expressed herself artistically. "Why should she?" Sargent answered, "She herself is art."

Rita de Acosta was married twice:

• On January 3, 1895,[5] aged 19, she became the first wife of William Earl Dodge Stokes, a multimillionaire with whom she had a son, William Earl Dodge Stokes Jr, born January 5, 1896.[6] The marriage was unhappy, reportedly due to Stokes's temper and physical cruelty, and when it was dissolved by divorce in 1900, she received a settlement of nearly two million dollars, a record for the time. In February 1922 she testified in court against Stokes, then going through an acrimonious divorce from his second wife, stating that he used to beat her during their marriage.

• In 1902 she married Captain Philip M. Lydig, a retired officer in the United States Army. They separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919.